Real time animation with krita

I wanted to create an animation with krita which is pretty easy AND add some real time animation where I am drawing. I did not find a way to do it with krita even if it can do a timelaps but with a delay of 1s minimum.

I divided this in 3 little pieces:

• Animation 1 with transform Mask from krita
• a real time drawing
• Animation 3 with transform Mask from krita

I used for this several tools:

• Losslesscut
• Krita
• FFMpeg with several batch script
  • For those later ones you can also just check the code to use what you need :)
  • Screencapture
  • add key frames to cut correctly with Losslesscut
  • change the speed of the video
  • bind the video

Here are the steps with examples:

• prepare you animation
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• increase the keyframes with FFmpeg_Add_keyframe_v01.bat
• cut the first part you want as Animation 1 with Losslesscut
• copy the middle frame that you will use and import it in a new document in Krita
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• start recording with FFmpeg_ScreenCapture-Audio_v06.bat
• in krita open the canvas only via Tab
  • type 3 to have it extended to the screen
  • move it with Space a bit up until to have the bottom part fitting to the bottom screen
  • start drawing
• stop the screen capture with Ctrl + c
• increase keyframe of the output
• cut the output how you need
• increase the output speed if needed with FFMPEG_SpeedUp_v04.bat
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  • BIG problem you can see the tabs at the top so create a png from the same size with a black banner at the top or whatever you need as back ground
  • overlay the output above with your png via ffmpeg -stats -loglevel error -i "input.mp4" -i "input.png" -filter_complex "[0:v][1:v]overlay" -y -c:a copy "output.mp4"
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• copy paste the drawn layer in krita in the middle of the animation
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• render the animation, cut it and so on to get Animation 2
• bind all to get the final animation
  • Animation 1
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  • your drawing
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  • Animation 2
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Final result: